Best subtitling software
Initiator des Themas: Jennifer Woolley
Jennifer Woolley
Jennifer Woolley
Frankreich
Local time: 10:38
Französisch > Englisch
Oct 12, 2020

We would like to offer subtitling services. What is the best subtitling software on the market at the moment? Does anyone have any tips? Thanks in advance, Jennifer and Furber&Co

 
Mr. Satan (X)
Mr. Satan (X)
Englisch > Bahasa Indonesia
My two cents Oct 12, 2020

Only subtitle editors that I have tried myself.

Aegisub (free and open source)
A subtitle editor with many advanced features, like subtitle positioning and rotation, as well as karaoke mode. I heard it was being used by Crunchyroll, that would boost your confidence using it. Plenty of documentations too. But no longer updated.

Kainote (free and open source)
A subtitle editor aiming to be the spiritual successor of Aegisub. Latest version releas
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Only subtitle editors that I have tried myself.

Aegisub (free and open source)
A subtitle editor with many advanced features, like subtitle positioning and rotation, as well as karaoke mode. I heard it was being used by Crunchyroll, that would boost your confidence using it. Plenty of documentations too. But no longer updated.

Kainote (free and open source)
A subtitle editor aiming to be the spiritual successor of Aegisub. Latest version released in April this year. Capable to perform most of Aegisub's features. Documentations are mostly only available in Polish.

What I don't like about it, is that Kainote also cache video and audio files. This will eat up your disk storage quite fast unless you delete them manually.

Subtitle Edit (free and open source)
Very clean and straightforward interface. Not as powerful as the above mentioned, but should do the job for basic subtitling works. May require VLC to play the video and create audio waveform.

ZOOSubs (paid, cloud-based)
Mostly comparable to Subtitle Edit. For best compatibility, use Google Chrome to access the service.

Might be of interest:
https://www.proz.com/forum/subtitling/346802-spot_vs_free_or_cheap_subtitling_tools.html
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Epameinondas Soufleros
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Griechenland
Local time: 11:38
Mitglied (2008)
Englisch > Griechisch
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Wincaps Q4 Oct 13, 2020

You could get Wincaps, which I find quite reliable and good for most purposes: https://broadstream.com/.

There is currently a discount, too, for six-month and one-year subscriptions, which make it more affordable.


 
Sarper Aman
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Türkei
Local time: 11:38
Mitglied (2019)
Englisch > Türkisch
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Enterprise or Individual? Oct 13, 2020

Hello Jennifer,

From your post, I felt like you want to start a localization company focusing on subtitling, am I wrong? If that is the case, you may want o check Ooona or SubtitleNext since they provide enterprise subtitling solutions and also subtitling editors for individual use as w
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Hello Jennifer,

From your post, I felt like you want to start a localization company focusing on subtitling, am I wrong? If that is the case, you may want o check Ooona or SubtitleNext since they provide enterprise subtitling solutions and also subtitling editors for individual use as well.


https://ooona.net/

https://subtitlenext.com/
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Monica Paolillo
Monica Paolillo
Italien
Local time: 10:38
Englisch > Italienisch
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SubtitleNEXT Oct 13, 2020

Best value for money.

 
marijaflora
marijaflora
Australien
Local time: 18:38
Bosnisch > Englisch
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Camtasia Oct 30, 2020

Personally I have a love-hate relationship with Camtasia. I find it user friendly, and when it is good, it's very good, but sometimes it can malfunction on a laptop and cause huge (i.e., time consuming) problems. Sometimes it even randomly loads my files as Korean (my files are not in Korean and I can't speak Korean).
I am always on the lookout for other programmes too though.


 
Mr. Satan (X)
Mr. Satan (X)
Englisch > Bahasa Indonesia
Camtasia? Oct 30, 2020

Marijaflora wrote:

Personally I have a love-hate relationship with Camtasia.


I thought Camtasia was a screencasting software?


 
marijaflora
marijaflora
Australien
Local time: 18:38
Bosnisch > Englisch
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Both Nov 2, 2020

Novian Cahyadi wrote:

Marijaflora wrote:

Personally I have a love-hate relationship with Camtasia.


I thought Camtasia was a screencasting software?


Apparently it does this also, I'm not sure as I have never used Camtasia for this purpose. You can also create captions in Camtasia and export them as an SRT file.


 
Viktoriia Horiachko
Viktoriia Horiachko
Local time: 11:38
Mitglied (2019)
Englisch > Ukrainisch
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Does a great job Nov 2, 2020

Novian Cahyadi wrote:

Subtitle Edit (free and open source)
Very clean and straightforward interface. Not as powerful as the above mentioned, but should do the job for basic subtitling works. May require VLC to play the video and create audio waveform.


Second this! I always use Subtitle Edit and would definitely recommend it.


 
Jennifer Woolley
Jennifer Woolley
Frankreich
Local time: 10:38
Französisch > Englisch
THEMENSTARTER
Thanks for all your replies Nov 3, 2020

Thanks everyone for all your info. As per there's a variety... I'll need the easiest to get to grips with at the moment. User friendly...

 
Cristiano Lima
Cristiano Lima
Brasilien
Local time: 05:38
Russisch > Portugiesisch
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Media Subtitler Nov 3, 2020

Jennifer Woolley wrote:

We would like to offer subtitling services. What is the best subtitling software on the market at the moment? Does anyone have any tips? Thanks in advance, Jennifer and Furber&Co


Did you ever try Media Subtitler? In my opinion it's simple and useful, I use it often.


 


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